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13-letter words containing l, w, e

  • well-situated — located; placed.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • well-supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
  • well-tempered — (of a musical scale or instrument) conforming to the system of equal temperament
  • well-traveled — having traveled, especially to distant places; experienced in travel.
  • welland canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • welsh dresser — a sideboard having drawers or compartments below and open, shallow shelves above.
  • welsh terrier — one of a Welsh breed of terriers having a wiry, black-and-tan coat, resembling an Airedale but smaller.
  • welterweights — Plural form of welterweight.
  • werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west berliner — a native or inhabitant of the part of Berlin formerly under US, British, and French control
  • west caldwell — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • west st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
  • western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
  • what the hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • wheel of life — the symbol of the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.
  • wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
  • when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
  • whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
  • whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
  • white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
  • white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whole brother — a brother whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  • wholesomeness — The state of being wholesome.
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
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